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T. H. LINDLEY,

STOVE HOOD.

No. 356,722. Patented Jan. 25, 1887.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,722, dated January 25, 1887.

Application filed September 9, 1886. Serial No. 213,103. (No model.)

To all whom it L l/[0]] concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS H. LINDLEY, of Lyons, in the county of Clinton and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain newand useful Improvements in Stove-Hoods; and I do hereby.

declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form part of this specification, in which Figure 1 is a plan view of a stove having my improved stove-hood applied. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the stove and hood on line a: :0, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the hood detached.

This invention relates to improvements in stove-hoods, and is designed to provide means whereby food may be cooked on the top of the stove without producing smoke or offensive odors in the room.

A further object is to enable the cook to watch and properly handle the cooking food as, for instance, to turn pancakes or move a piece of meat, to prevent one part from cooking more than another.

The invention consists, principally, in so shaping the hood that the draft will be increased after passing over the cooking food, and where it enters one of the other stoveholes, preferably a rear stovehole.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A designates a stove of ordinary construct-ion; a a, the front row of stove-holes, and a a the rear row of the same.

B is thehood, made of sheet metal, preferably tinned iron, and provided with the sides I) b, which converge toward its rounded rear end, 6.

G is the top of the hood, the part c of which, nearest its mouth, being horizontal when the device is in place, so as to serve as a shelf for plate of gravy, hatter, or other trimmings. or the dishes maybe placed there to warm. The other part, c, of the top inclines downwardly to the rear end of the hood, so that the said end is much narrower and shallower than the front end.

1) is the handle to lift the hood on and off the stove. The handle is preferably secured upon the part c of the top.

(I d are brace or strengthening pieces, which hold together and stiffen the front edges of the sides and top of the hood.

The manner of using'thc hood is to place the front or open end over one of the stoveholes, preferably one in the front row, and the closed rear end over another stove-hole, having previously removed the lid from the latter. Owing to the convergence of the sides and top of the hood when so placed in position, a draft will be produced therein from its open front end to the open stove-hole at its rear end, which draft will draw inwardly the smoke and odors produced in cooking the food, and will discharge them into the stove, where they will escape to the flue through the stove pipe. The front of the hood being so much higher and wider than the rear end allows sufficient room to watch and manipulate the food while cooking, and the hood can be easily moved from over one set of holes to cover other sets, as it has no connection either with the stove or pipe, but merely rests upon the former.

The greatest advantages of the invention are its simplicity of construction, its detachability from the stove, and its effectiveness.

I am aware that stove-hoods have been made for removing the smoke and odors of cooking from a room; therefore I do not claim such, broadly.

Having described myinvention, whatI claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The herein-described stovehood, formed with its sides and top converging toward its rear end, and having its bottom and front end open and of such a width and length that it can be set upon a stove and stand over two of the holes in the top thereof, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with the stove A, provided with the stove-holes c a, of the hood B, formed with the converging sides I) b and top 0, and the rounded closed end, all suhstantiall y as and for the purpose specified.

3. The combination, with the stove A, pro- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as vided with the stove-holes a a, of the hood 13, my own I aflix my signature in presence of two 1c constructed with the handle D, the convergwitnesses. ing sides and top, and the rounded and closed 5 rear end, and one portion ofits top made horizontal to serve as a shelf when the device is W'itnesses: in position, substantially as and for the pur- E. M. PUROELL, pose specified. S. F. GORDON.

THUS. H. LINDLEY. 

